On Tuesday, the Supremes ruled that textbooks sold inexpensively overseas could be legally resold in America. So how rich are you about to get shipping Chinese copies of DVDs stateside? We do the math.
Three months ago DKNY offered the blogger behind Humans of New York a deal to display his photos in store windows, but he wanted more, and the deal fell through. And then on Monday morning, Brandon Stanton spotted his popular photos in DKNY windows anyway — and took to Facebook to rally support.
During the aftermath of yesterday's scary NASCAR crash, a video emerged on Youtube taken mere feet away from where one of the car's tires landed in the grandstand. It was an amazing, fan shot video of what happened. And then Youtube and NASCAR pulled it on copyright grounds.
The Pirate Bay — one of the Internet's premier destinations for infringing copyrights — is really mad that someone set up a copycat. So mad that they sued them for violating their copyright.
One school district in Washington is looking to put a copyright on everything created by their employees or students, which means they would own new lesson plans, an app created in a computer science class, or even just your everyday homework.
Record companies are usually quick to capitalize on the never-before heard recordings of their biggest artists. So why did Sony drag their feet and hush up the release of new Bob Dylan rarities? The answer lies in a complex copyright law.
You might be going to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this coming weekend, but you won't be going to see Age of the Hobbits. Wait, what?
After looking like a bully, Instapaper CEO Marco Arment has apologized for blocking Apple blog 9to5Mac off the read-it-later service.
In the first instance in which the copyright dispute between publishers and Instapaper is visible to users, the read-it-later app has blocked tech blog 9to5Mac from its service because Instapaper doesn't want to "save pages from publishers who object to the service," founder Marco Arment told Buzzfeed's Matt Buchanan.
When he dies, Bill Cosby doesn't want to go the way of Fred Astaire shilling for Dirt Devil or Audrey Hepburn selling Gap black pants, so he's backing a law that would protect his likeness—and that of everyone else who lives in Massachusetts—by passing those rights to their heirs.
Today in books and publishing: Science fiction author Harry Harrison dies; the fight over DRM; a look inside the Zeitoun Foundation's books; Google allowed to challenge authors' group status.
2012 is the 71st year since James Joyce’s death, and marks the first — across the EU at any rate – that his work may be shared freely among them, without needing permission — for public readings, performances, or re-interpretations — from his estate.
Uploading Beastie Boys' never-before-seen live performance on Chappelle's Show to YouTube seemed like such a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yaunch (a.k.a. MCA). That is, until Viacom took down the video for copyright infringement.
A week after its fifth birthday, Tumblr got hit with a grownup copyright infringement lawsuit—and a gnarly one at that.
For the average computer user, it's easy to overlook the fact that giant corporations own the rights to the source code that makes the machine perform even the simplest task.
Pinterest, the social network that encourages image hoarding, hasn't done a very good job preparing for the inevitable copyright scandal the site will face.
A few days after we highlighted a spat between a Boston Phoenix writer and The New York Times columnist Bill Keller, Keller is fighting back with a new blog post.
Only a few weeks after a team of commandos stormed Kim Dotcom's compound outside of Auckland, the file-sharing site BTjunkie is shutting its doors.
Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech -- arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history -- costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of United States copyright law.
If it weren't for the corporate influence over U.S. copyright laws, the brilliant works that would be in the public domain this year include Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues, Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King.
There's a great scene from the deposition of artist Richard Prince as described in Randy Kennedy's New York Times story today that shows that sometimes art and law don't do so well together.
Intellectual property law is crazy complicated, so a YouTube user simplified it
YSL and Christian Louboutin continues legal battle over their red-soled shoes
Britons can't copy music or DVDs to their MP3 players and computers
Lucasfilm chalks the loss up to an "anomaly" in British law
Apple sued after the high-schooler imported conversion kits from China
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